The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-10
PITH AND POINT.


Eternal vigilance is the price OF
safe railroad line. Buffalo Courier.
Tho complaint at Bar Harbor is that
It is easier to find the harbor than the
bal. Fiorida Times Union.
Some of the best blood in the land
now runs through the mosquitoes veins.
Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph
Machinery will do almost anything,
and what machinery cant do woman
can with hairpin. -NeW Hauen News.
The man who will not listen to rea-
son soon becomes crank; but trying
to turn him is waste of time. -New
Orleans Hcayune.
1t is the little things of this life that
bother us. Ono yellow jacket at
camp-meeting will ruin a whole SER
mon. Baltimore american.
Several ballet girls intend suing
Chicago paper for libelous comments
on their costumes. 1t Is to be hoped
they will secure redress. Life.
The editor who saw lady making
Tor the only seat in the car found him
self "crowded out to make room for
more interesting matter. "-JeWeIry
NeUS.
They are trying to stir up another
disturbance in the Canadian northwest,
but it is not likely to be Riel rebellion.
only halfway sort of row.-St. PAU
Globe.
1t does not follow that town Is
ruined, in business way, because q
gambler can not make living in II,
working at his trade. -New Orleans
Picayane.
Male attire for women is said to be
the coming fad in Paris. A number of
American women have been wearing
the trousers at home for years. Phil
adetphtG Times.
A hackman recently went into the
surf at Long Branch and encountered
huge shark. Their eyes met for an
instant when the shark blushed and
swan out.-Puck.
The syndicate to corner the whisky
market has failed of its object, owing
to the opposition of the distllers. Even
u worm of the still will turn when trod
upon. -FHHddetphd fTeSS.
There will be no boodling In the
present Cook county board. The con-
victed boodlers would no doubt rather
go to Joliet than stay in board where
they couldn't Doodle. Chicago Times
An Indiana farmer outwitted three
confidence men because he had read OF
their little game in tho newspapers.
The state fair is near at hand; now is
the time to subscribe. st. Paul Globe
The crop of hops will be smaller
.han usual this season. Now we come
10 think about II, there was an extra
ordinary demand for frogs legs this
year. Vintage of '63. y B44aIo En-
press.
Why does not Colorado take Off its
coat and lick thunder out OF Colorow
and his crowdp Give Senator Tom
Bowen chance at them, He will
talk them to death in twenty-four
hours. - Omaha Bee.
A man who can stand on his head or
play fiddle with his toes can have
piece written for him and 60 on the
road as a star, but the base ball player
comes to dead halt in tho winter. -
NeD Orleans Ptcayune.
Every paper is remarking that Jay
Gould is a grandfather. But this was
quite in the natural order of things.
It would be something really remarka-
ole, now, were Jay Gould a grand
mother. - Chicago Times.
1t is strange that in tho age which
mas produced an Edison no effective
means has boon devised to prevent
what is one of the gravest and most
universal among the minor fortunes of
life. the mosquito. -New York Herald.
The subscriber to newspaper who
lmagines it is published for the pur-
pose of booming some chap for Office,
Or to pull political. religious. or amy
other kind of chestnuts from tho fire, Is
away of. Times have changed. -Ce-
dar Rapids Gazette.
Miss Josie Barnard a Lowell herr
,ss, was married to her grandmother's
coachman year or two ago She now
finds herself reduced to restitution, and
has just returned to Lowell from Prov
idence on a ticket furnished by the
overseers of the poor. Young ladies
with a weakness for coachmen should
paste this item in their hats. Chicago
Times.